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Tracking Clean Energy Progress – Noting that solar PV and onshore wind are bright spots globally, a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) laments "halting" progress on other clean technologies it says have great potential for energy and emissions savings. In particular the report says that vehicle fuel-efficiency improvement is slow, and significant untapped energy-efficiency potential remains in the building and industry sectors, although as you'll read in the next summary, home builders in the U.S. might say otherwise. Read more about the IEA report >>
New and Remodeled Green Homes: Transforming the Residential Market – The green homes share of the construction market was 17% in 2011, equating to $17 billion, and expected to rise 29%-38% by 2016, potentially a $87–114 billion opportunity, based on the five-year forecast for overall residential construction, according to a report from McGraw-Hill Construction released earlier this week. The report found that use of energy-efficient features is pervasive in the market—the top practice by nearly all surveyed builders and remodelers, regardless of their level of green building activity. "In the current residential market, there is an enormous need to differentiate your homes for consumers," says Harvey Bernstein, VP of Industry Insights and Alliances at McGraw-Hill Construction. "When builders are able to offer homes that not only are green, but also offer the combination of higher quality and better value, they have a major competitive edge over those building traditional homes." Read more about it >>
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| “The deregulated structure of UK market is uniquely challenging for rapid and co-ordinated action in a large scale initiative like this and we believe that smart meter deployment in 65% of UK homes by 2015 is not possible,” The market's got nothing to do with it. 1) the final tech spec's not ready yet 2) Smart meters aren't mandated until 2014 with the rollout to be finished by 2019. 3) the central comms body hasn't been set up yet. Now at most they'd have 2 years to install 65% of around 45million meters, which works out at about 1.2 million meters/month or about 50k/working day not taking into account "no access" issues. One operator could probably install 6 meters/day maximum, that makes 8000 operators working flat out for two years. Even if there were a single government monopoly, I'd suggest that it's not possible. I'd think that the meter manufacturers would be struggling too. What does anyone else think? (Oh and I don't believe France are rolling out Gas Smart meters at all, so the 49% predicted must be nearly 100% of the Electricity meters) |
| Paul Scotson - 05/03/2012 - 07:56 |
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